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Several years ago it was necessary to compile a list of known IRAF software. After several days Googling we compiled a large list but unfortunately didn't think to save the URLs at the time. Not all packages are active or distributed by the authors, but may be what you're looking for. If interested, Google on the package/author name.
Here's the list, if you know of other packages please mention them in a comment, if you know of a URL to a package please consider adding a link.
Last updated: Thu Feb 28, 2002 Known External Packages ----------------------- NOAO-Developed Packages ----------------------- The following packages are current being actively maintained or developed by members of the SDSG. All packages are available on local NOAO servers and distributed through our archives: Package Description Developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ACE Astronomical Cataloging Environment Valdes (1) Successor to FOCAS CFH12K Used to update CFH 12K CCD mosaic data Valdes for use with MSCRED CRUTIL Cosmic Ray Removal Valdes (2) DIGIPHOTX Digital Photometry (DAOPHOT/APPHOT,etc) Davis (2) ESOWFI Used to update ESO WFI mosaic data for Valdes use with MSCRED FINDER Astrometry/plate solutions pkg Davis/Seaman FITSUTIL FITS Utilities Zarate FOCAS Faint Object Cataloging System Valdes GMISC Gemini Misc utilities Davis/Valdes GUIAPPS GUI Applications package LD/FV/MF IFOCAS IRAF version of FOCAS pkg Valdes MSCRED MOSAIC Reduction package Valdes (1) MSCDB MSCRED data file support package Valdes (1) NMISC NOAO misc tasks Valdes/Davis RVX Radial Velocity package Fitz (2) SPECTIME Spectral Exposure-Time calculator Valdes XCCDRED Quad CCD reduction (replaces ARED) Valdes (2) XDIMSUM Experimental rewrite of DIMSUM pkg Davis (1) used for IR data XDWRED Experimental reduction tasks/pkgs needed Davis/Valdes (1) for NDWFS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Notes: 1) Support for NDWFS 2) Installed in V2.12, extpkg maintained to export bug fixes and features between core IRAF releases The following packages are no longer being actively developed by the SDSG but remain available on NOAO servers and our archives: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ADCCDROM An IRAF package for searching and Valdes accessing Volume 1 of the ADC CD-ROM catalogs (text version) and spectral libraries. COLOR Color composite/conversion tasks. Valdes IMCNV Image Conversion tools Fitz NLOCAL Local NOAO utilities IRAF Group SONG Stellar Oscillation Network Group Valdes (prototype pkg developed to reduce NOAO staff project data) SPPTOOLS SPP Programming Tools Fitz VOL Volume pixel rendering/tools Rooke ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following packages were developed by NOAO staff for use within IRAF but not by members of the SDSG. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ARED Quad-CCD readout reduction package P. Gigoux ARCON Arcon Controller package ??? CTIO CTIO local utilities package P. Gigoux GEMINI Gemini reductions package I. Jorgensen MXTOOLS Ken Mighell's QDPHOT photometry K. Mighell SQIID SQIID instrument reduction package M. Merrill GRASP GONG reduction/pipeline software GONG Group NSO NSO reduction software NSO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Non-NOAO Packages ----------------- The following packages were developed by outside programming groups in coordination with the Technical Working Group (TWG). Packages like STSDAS/TABLES represent a system as large as core IRAF itself, not all packages are being currently developed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EUV EUVE reduction/analysis CEA IUE IUE reduction/analysis STScI FTOOLS FITS tools HEASARC STSDAS HST reducton/analysis STScI TABLES Tables manipulation package STScI XRAY Multi-mission X-ray analysis SAO/Rosat SDC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Display tools developed for the IRAF environment by outside groups. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SAO-IIS Early image display protocol library J. Wright SAOimage X11 image display from SAO M. van Hilst/D. Mink SAORD SAO R&D package containing enhanced CL E. Mandel and support tasks SAOtng SAOimage successor display program E. Mandel based on X11IRAF DS9 SAOtng successor with IRAF support E. Mandel/B. Joye ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The following packages were developed independently by outside users with no support from NOAO. Packages listed here are either distributed by the authors or used locally as part of observatory operations and do not include personal packages used for private research. Many packages are built on core system tasks using scripts, others are major software projects using compiled SPP code and X11IRAF GUIs. A Google search on the package name and instrument/author should turn up a reference page pretty quickly. Total of 64 packages listed here, list is by no means complete. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AATRGO Pipeline processing GUI (obmsh) for RGO J. Lewis spectrograph at AAT ALFOSC MOS mask generating pkg for ALFOSC instr ??? at Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) AOTOOLS Near IR reduction w AO systems Eric Steinbring APO Tasks used for reduction/analysis of Louis Bergeron Apache Point Obs. sci/eng data APT Reduction of Automated Patrol Telescope M. Ashley data from UNSW ARCTOOLS Photometry of ellipsoidal regions Ben Sugerman,Columbia ARNICA Reduction of Arcetri Near IR Camera data ??? at Arcetri Obs, Florence, Italy ASPEC GUI spectral analysis BASPHOTC Photometry analysis from Zodiac system w/ Marc Buie IRAF support BUIE Rewrite of BASPHOTC package for IRAF Marc Buie CALYPSO Calypso Telescope reduction package CASPIR CASPIR IR reduction (MSSSO) Pat McGregor CIRRED CTIO IR reduction B. Gregory CIRDR CIRSI Data Reduction pkg (Cambridge IoA) S.J. Chan CNOC97B CFHT multislit spectroscopic reduction Pat Hall cosmic ray removal/spectral extraction DIFIMPHOT Difference Image Photometry package for A. Tomaney, UWash variable source detection (MACHO project) DIMSUM Deep Infrared Mosaicing Software P.Eisenhardt et al DISTOOLS DIS spectral reduction at Apache Point Gordon Richards Observatory UChicago DITHERII Cosmic Ray removal from dithered, under- sampled HST images FCRAO ????? Radio package ?????? Heyer,M&Carpernter,J FLAIR FLAIR multi-object fibre spec at UK M. Drinkwater Schmidt, AAO FPTOOL Fabry-Perot Analysis (w/ GUI) P. Shopbell FUSE FUSE data analysis pkg Jerry Kriss GALPHOT Galaxy Photometry analysis W. Freudling GBNRAO Green Bank NRAO special-purpose image R. Fisher display package GIM2D Detailed bulge/disk decompositions of Luc Simard low signal-to-noise images of distant galaxies HAMSCATT Echelle spec illumination correction C. Churchill, PSU HL_REDUCE Hoher List reduction package Oliver Cordes (HOLICAM instr at Hoher List Obs, Astr. Institute Bonn) HUT Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope reductions G.A. Kriss in use at MAST IACTASKS Inst. de Astrofisica de Canarias utilities S. Delgado IRCAM Near IR reduction/analysis of IAC/IRCAM S.J. Chan data from Teide Obs. INTEGRAL Reduction of INTEGRAL fiber optic spec- R. Greimel trograph at WHT INGRID_QL INGRID quick-look at ING ??? KISS KPNO Int'l Spectroscopic Survey ('96) John Salzer et al LDSS2 Magellan telescope LDSS reduction John Mulchaey,OCIW MAKEE (MAuna Kea Echelle Extraction) HIRES T. Barlow (Hi Res Echelle Spectrometer) reduction at UNSW and Keck, ESI (Echellette Spectro- graph and Imager) at Keck MEM0 Maximum Entropy deconvolution Nailong Wu MOSARGUS Reduction pkg for ARGUS instr data at C. Vanderriest CFHT (an IFS config in MOS) MOSRED Big Throughput Camera pkg S. Heathcote MTOOLS Jeff Munn's utility tools package J. Munn MULTIRED CFHT MOS/OSIS instr reduction pkg O. Le Fevre MXPACKAGE Steward MX spectrometer reductions J. Hill, UofA NICRED HST/NICMOS multiaccum reduction done as B. Mcleod part of CfA-Arizona Space Telescope Lens Survey (CASTLeS) PHAT Pat Hall's add-on tasks - IR defringing P. Hall and coadding, CTIO BTC tasks, etc PHIIRS Pat Hall's IIRS reducton tasks P. Hall PHIST Pkg for displaying SDSS spectra P. Hall, Princeton http://www.astro.puc.cl/~phall/astro.html PHUC Pat Hall's Utility companion - coadding P. Hall PHXS Pat Hall's X-ray software P. Hall QUICKIE Quick-look spectral extractions J.R. Lewis (RGO) RGO Reductions tasks/pkgs from RGO J.R. Lewis (RGO) RVSAO Radial Velocity tasks from SAO D. Mink SAM Slit Spectral Extraction Pkg for two J.R. Lewis (RGO) LPO spectrogr SNOOPY SN photometry based on DAOPHOT E. Cappellero,Padova SPECFIT Spectral Fitting Pkg from JHU G.A. Kriss (now in STSDAS.CONTRIB but maintained separately) STECF Apps used at ST-ECF R. Hook STPOA ST-ECF Post Operations Archive package R. Hook STEWARD Steward Observatory local package P. Bristow UCSLRIS Slitmask creation pkg for the Low Res- Drew Phillips olution Imaging Spectrograph (LRIS) @ Keck UFOERED Pipeline reduction of UFOE data at HET Chris Churchill, PSU (Upgraded Fiber Optic Echelle) UNSWIRF Reduction pkg for UNSW IR Fabry-Perot Stuart Ryder at AAT WFCCD align optics of WFCCCD at Las Campanas Bill Kunkel WFCRED INT WFC data reduction pipeline R. Greimel WMKOLWS Reduction of LWS (Long Wavelength Spec- G. Wirth trograph) images at Keck WMKONSPEC Keck NIRSPEC data reduction package G. Wirth WYFFOS MOS extraction pkg for WHT wyffos instr J.R. Lewis XIRAF IRAF user-startup script V. Charmandaris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Known IRAF-Based Projects in the Astronomical Community ------------------------------------------------------- The following is a sample of independently developed IRAF-based projects in the wider astronomical community. Many projects are quite substantial or widely distributed but require almost no support from NOAO. Most of these projects were unknown prior to this survey, below are notes on some of the more interesting projects found: CATALINA Cataline Sky Survey for NEOs (LPL/UofA) http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v30n3/dps98/211.htm aphs from RGO CDL Feedback on usage of CDL is very limited but distribution numbers show a lot of downloads. Projects using CDL which I know of from users or found on public web pages include: - CCDTool control software from SDSU (Leach II Cont- roller) in use at >24 observatories (Gemini, Keck, CFHT, Steward, etc) Built on VooDoo controller by Scott Streit (http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/ccdlab/index.html) - CDL used in NOAO Wildfire system - Tony Tyson's Deep Lens Survey has custom software (http://dls.bell-labs.com/Observing/observing.html) - Isaac Newton Group telescopes - acquisition system - Jim Heasley's "Stellar Photometry Software" (http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~heasley/sps/web/) - Nat'l Astronomical Observatory, Japan - acquisition sys - CNOC (Canadian Network for Observational Cosmology) pipe- line at CFHT (http://www.astro.utoronto.ca/~cnoc/) - XCCDXER ccd control program at UBC by Stephane Courteau - GODS (Global Orbit Determination System) at CFHT - CTIO Mosaic II linux auto-guider project - CIRDR (CIRSI Data Reduction) package at Cambridge IofA CFH12K The CFHT 12k Mosaic heavily uses IRAF for reductions, esp MSCRED. Other aspects of IRAF usage found - checker.tcl program to automatically launch image display and imexamine from custom GUI - used for telescopt focus http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/Instruments/Imaging/CFH12K - CFH12K DetCom detector control program has ability to write pixels to NOAO message bus (implemented but apparently not currently used) (ADASS 99 proceedings) CICADA Pipeline processing of MSSSO data. IRAF is used as the central processing engine for the pipeline reductions, many parts of CICADA are used in telescope quick-look operations. http://monet.astro.uiuc.edu/adass98/Proceedings/belljf/ DAOPHOT Peter Stetson's original photometry code requires imfort DEIMOS DEIMOS to use XImtool for RTD, possibly DHS system ESO IRAF is heavily used at ESO and the ST-ECF: - HST on-the-fly recalibration pipeline using IRAF/STSDAS http://archive.eso.org/archive/hst/OTF.html - ESO Imageing Survey using IRAF for pipeline processing (5 separate survey programs) http://www.eso.org/science/eis/ - FORS-ISAAC Cluster Deep Field survey using XCCDRED for 4-port readout data http://www.eso.org/science/ut1sv/Clus_DR.html - Pipeline Package for the HST Post-Operational Archive at ST-ECF. http://www.stecf.org/poa - ESO/ST-ECF Science Archive processes retrieved data to be IRAF compatible (http://archive.eso.org/) IRAFSTAR IRAF/Starlink Inter-operability Insfrastucture. A project was begun several years ago by Starlink to allow all Starlink tasks to be controlled from the CL. Conversion of the native NDF image format is done on-the-fly, FIGARO tasks can now be used in the IRAF environment. http://www.stecf.org/adass/adassVII/blym.html JARtool JPL Adaptive Recognition Tool. Built on SAOtng (which is built on x11iraf). Automated detection of Magellan CD-ROM database images to search for small-scale geological features such as volcanoes. http://www-aig.jpl.nasa.gov/public/mls/mgn-sar/jartool_home.html LRIS LRIS/XBOX packages used for mask generation. LRIS is a multislit spectrograph in use at Keck. http://www2.keck.hawaii.edu:3636/realpublic/inst/lris/ MMT XImtool used for remote observing because of inet sockets, ICE used for acquisition at MMT dome. http://www.adass.org/adass/proceedings/adass00/P2-28/ MSCRED MSCRED was found to be the standard package used for reducing data from CFA (4-shooter, megacam) CFHT (8K, 12K, 16K) ESO (8K WFI) ING (8K?) MMT (4-shooter) MSSSO (8K WFI) PFIRCAM Palomar 200" Prime Focus IR Camera (PFIRCAM) instrument data acquisition by ICE http://spider.ipac.caltech.edu/staff/jarrett/palomar/manual.html PyRAF PyRAF system originally intended as CL replacement but becoming complete environment. Fully integrated with IRAF. http://pyraf.stsci.edu PDL Karl Glazebrook's Perl Data Language has hooks for IRAF integration including image display. http://pdl.perl.org/ XImtool The AAT/MSSSO has created a local custom version of XImtool for use with: - GIT (Graph and Image Tool) in CICADA http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/computing/cicada/git/git.html) at MSSSO (possibly CDL for image display, couldn't verify) - TipTilt IR secondary at MSSSO 2.3m acquisition system - AAT WFI_PFU observing system Xpguider UTexas McDonald Ximtool Auto-Guider. A custom modification of XImtool to provide a new GUI and features for use as a auto-guider for the Near IR images ROKAM at the McDonald 2.7m. McDonald also uses ICE for acquisition. http://marple.as.utexas.edu/~dfl/ROKCAMman/pxlman.html
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% cd $iraf/extern
% ./configure # needed once
% make mtools
You can download tarballs directly from ftp://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/extern/</p>
I am trying to download a copy of mtools to add to my IRAF package in order to perform principal component analysis on some cluster data.
Does anyone know how I can find and download mtools.tar.gz
which was on the IRAF ftp.nofs.navy.mil server at one stage (1998) but I can not connect
to it according to instructions left in a mtools.readme.txt file.
When connecting to the ftp.nofs.navy.mil server I get a connection closed message after switching to
pub/outgoing/jam directory and switching to binary mode
Regards
Bob